Hidden in a coastal forest near the shore of the Indian Ocean in Kenya lie the ruins of Gedi, a once-thriving Swahili town that was mysteriously abandoned and left to

On the Maltese island of Gozo stand the Ġgantija temples, raised around 3600 BC. Among the oldest freestanding structures on Earth, their giant stones were said to be the work of giants.

On the Dnieper near Smolensk, Gnyozdovo was a key hub on the Viking trade route to Byzantium, where Scandinavian and Slavic worlds fused at the dawn of early Rus.

On a hilltop in southeastern Turkey stands a monument that has rewritten the story of human civilisation. Gobekli Tepe is the oldest known temple in the world, built around eleven

Built roughly 11,500 years ago by hunter-gatherers in southeastern Turkey, Göbekli Tepe is older than farming, writing and the pyramids — and it changed how we understand the dawn of civilization.

On a stretch of rugged, semi-arid land not far from the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan lies one of the most extraordinary open-air galleries in the world. Here, among a chaos

Rising from a great granite hill on the outskirts of the city of Hyderabad, in the Deccan plateau of southern India, the mighty ruined fortress of Golconda is one of

Where the mighty Danube, the great river of central Europe, narrows dramatically to force its way through the mountains, there stands one of the most magnificent fortresses in all of

Out on the dry central plateau of Anatolia, where the Sakarya River winds through low hills and wheat fields, a great flat-topped mound rises above the plain like an artificial

In the granite hills of southern Africa stand the ruins of a great city built entirely of stone, its curving walls raised without mortar and rising in places to more